Jobs, income and commuting in Lyndhurst, VA
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, against 18% across Virginia. The two grades for Lyndhurst are B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 2% stay in Lyndhurst for work; outside it, Waynesboro is the main destination (14%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Lyndhurst, in brief
Lyndhurst makes and builds things
84% of the jobs based in Lyndhurst are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lyndhurst residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Lyndhurst works one town over
28% of working residents work in a town that borders Lyndhurst: Stuarts Draft (14%) and Waynesboro (14%). Next door ↓
The jobs in Lyndhurst pay better than its residents’ jobs
83% of the jobs based in Lyndhurst pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 58% of the jobs Lyndhurst residents hold. 97% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Lyndhurst. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 761 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Lyndhurst’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lyndhurst is better than 74% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lyndhurst’s grade up (1.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Lyndhurst’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lyndhurst could be anywhere from B− to A.
84% of the jobs in Lyndhurst make or build things
635 jobs are based in Lyndhurst.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lyndhurst, 2013 → 2023: 536 → 635. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lyndhurst’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Lyndhurst by day
On a workday 743 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 617 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Lyndhurst on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Lyndhurst commutes to
Where Lyndhurst clocks in
14% of workers
14% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
From Lyndhurst, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lyndhurst workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 521 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far Lyndhurst goes to work
About 20% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Lyndhurst start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 552 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.2% of Lyndhurst households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lyndhurst’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lyndhurst ranks: 765th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 15 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
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| 22 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
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| 176 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
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| 763 | Alma Township KS | 1,221 | $101K | 3.9% | 2.3% | 10% | B+ |
| 764 | Dodgeville WI | 1,610 | $117K | 4.9% | 2.1% | 2% | B+ |
| 765 | Lyndhurst VA | 1,309 | $76K | 1.2% | 5.1% | 2% | B+ |
| 766 | Sidney IL | 1,167 | $89K | 4.3% | 4.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 767 | Andalusia IL | 1,175 | $77K | 4.7% | 2.4% | 0% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Lyndhurst, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Lyndhurst and its neighbors: 28% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lyndhurst workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyndhurst | – | B+ | D | 21 min | $76,111 |
| Stuarts Draft | 14% | B | D− | 20 min | $79,332 |
| Sherando | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Waynesboro | 14% | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $59,994 |
Same-state neighbors only. Sherando: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Stuarts Draft. Darker towns draw more of Lyndhurst’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Lyndhurst: questions
What is the median household income in Lyndhurst?
$76,111 (±$22,711) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lyndhurst?
1.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lyndhurst?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lyndhurst work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waynesboro (14%, 4 mi), Stuarts Draft (14%, 4 mi), Fishersville (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lyndhurst walkable?
Lyndhurst is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lyndhurst without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lyndhurst, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lyndhurst
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.